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Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution of the United States reads: "The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector."

Bibliography

Pasley, Jeffrey L.The first presidential contest: 1796 and the founding of American democracy. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013.